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If All Poems Were Limericks: Porphyria’s Lover

Porphyria loved me, and yet

A moment was all I could get,

So I strangled her there

With her own yellow hair–

I do hope she isn’t upset!

Happy 411th birthday to John Milton!

Mr. Neruda’s lines are from The Book of Questions, by Pablo Neruda.

Mr. Bukowski’s line is from When Harry Met Sally, by Nora Ephron

Two roads diverged in a wood, you know,

And I crossed the one filling up with snow,

And now I’m at this frozen lake.

I wonder if there’s some mistake.

I find no corn or seed or grain;

I think I might cross back again.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Listen to the original here, styled as a Morrisey song.

There are also two cover versions.

Happy 80th birthday to Margaret Atwood!

The line in this strip is from “Backdrop Addresses Cowboy“

Read the rest of Carol Ann Duffy’s Armistice Day sonnet here.